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Save engineers and judge (6)

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I believe the answer is:

redeem

'save' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'engineers and judge' is the wordplay.
'engineers' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'judge' becomes 'deem' (I've seen this before).
're'+'deem'='REDEEM'

(Other definitions for redeem that I've seen before include "Save from hell or recover from pawn" , "Save, from hell or pawnbroker" , "Free - retrieve" , "Retrieve from hell or pawn" , "take back pawn move" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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